When I am messing around and want to do something on the computer, I sketch it with pencil, then trace it onto another piece of paper with a thin Sharpie to get good solid lines on the screen for coloring.

I still like the feel of drawing on paper better than the Wacom. I used to try to draw everything from scratch in Photoshop or Painter, but these days, I just let it happen. If I happen to be scribbling in my sketchbook and decide it would make a good painting, I'll scan it and go to work in Painter.

More freedom? More control? Can you draw with 16 million colors from your pencil? Can you put on your super magnification glasses and draw with graphite particle by graphite particle? Can you freely cut out or copy sections of your sketchpad and resize them?

Funfetus if your good you dont need all that stuff. Even if you have a graphics tablet the lines you draw are dictated by what some programmer wrote. And magnifying pixel by pixes only produces stiff ass lines with no feeling and lack of uniqueness. Theres no computer than can replicate the line of a competant artist with a 20 cent pencil.

Well, I usually sketch out the design on paper and then redraw it using the mouse; I don't have a scanner or an artpad so I don't have much choice.. I don't see the problem in scanning in your own stuff though, it's not like you're tracing it from a photo or anything

I use both methods. I might just start sketching on the 'puter, or I could do a sketch at school or while watching telly (I sketch rather frequently), then scan it in and fix it up. Just depends what it is and how I feel.

I like paper better because it just feels so much better than the smoothness of the tablet, much more natural. Rough paper with a nice dark pencil is always great. And I don't think it hurts your eyes as much as a monitor.

Hey Funfetus! You must be a big joker !
You've put "hehe" again... well is it a new joke ?
Yeah, MORE freedom, MORE controls... trust me. We are talking about sketching, so you don't need a 24-bit colors bla bla bla...
Man, how old digi-art and how old natural media? If digi-art are so cool why professional artists are still using oils, acryllics, etc. ?
/Leo

whether on a piece of paper or with a wacom on the computer i can obtain the same results,. the onlt difference is they have a better feel on paper <texture>, they can appear to be identical otherwise,..

it's like a painting, then a print,. they look the same, but you know which is the original by touch.

so anyway back to my point,. if you sketch on the computer or if you sketch by hand you can get the same results through practice of either mediums

did this make any sense?

anyhow, i found another image on the net that i did way way back with a mouse for a friend of mine

baaaaaah, wacom, tablets, mouse its all bullshit, the only true thing is a cheap ass pencil and a piece of paper, that is how it was done for ages, and, heh, with good results. you cant compare a big masters painting with a good designer pic.
anyway, sketch + scanner all the way